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DEDDINGTON PARISH COUNCIL

15 April by Skype

Attending: Alan Collins, Maureen Cox, Jo Eames, storey side extension with new vehicle access. David Rogers (Chair), Helen Oldfield, Stella O’Neill, Agreed to relist the registration of an Asset of Com- Mary Robinson, Martin Squires, Mark Swadling, Terry munity Value on the Duke of Cumberland’s Head in Timms, Jonathan Watts and the parish clerk. case of an application for a change of use. If anyone would like to join the next meeting which Environment and Recreation: will be held via Skype on 20 May, please contact the Grass cutting – Thomas Fox contractors have reported parish clerk deddingtonparishcouncil@googlemail. they have put their employees on furlough so that com or David Rogers [email protected]. verges will not be cut until the end of lockdown. Green Co-option of Councillor – Stella O’Neill was co- Scythe is complying with social distancing regulations opted. and will continue to cut the playing field. Update from District Councillor Bryn Williams – In particular during the current restrictions the PC Bryn had advised that each district councillor has a requested that people should respect the countryside budget of £2,000, provided by Cherwell District Coun- code, as set out below. cil, to provide additional support during the Covid-19 Highways: emergency. The three councillors covering Deddington There have been reports of tractors speeding through ward have identified groups within their parishes and the villages. Local contractors will be contacted and District Councillor Williams has already approved a reminded to adhere to speed restrictions. donation to the Deddington volunteer group through Councillors and members of the public are re- the PC. quested to keep an eye out for fly-tipping and report Residents in north Oxfordshire are asked not to any observations to the PC. light bonfires to dispose of additional waste but rather With the new development west of Wimborn Close, to store large items until the home and garden excess there will be £21,000 from S106 pledged to OCC for service resumes or until Oxfordshire County Council the bus service that connects Deddington to Banbury recycling centres reopen. and Oxford. The PC suggested that this could fund Finance and General Purposes: Our Bus Bartons to consider a detour to Hempton. The Windmill Management Committee had submitted Councillors thought it unlikely to be of interest to resi- an invoice for £1,600 electrical work. This work had dents living in Clifton. been agreed by the WMC prior to the lockdown when they had anticipated having income to cover the cost. The PC agreed to pay the half the invoice but would Countryside Code Respect other people: ask the WMC to submit a request to the PC before Consider the local community and other people committing to expenses that they are unable to pay. enjoying the outdoors Windmill: Leave gates and property as you find them and WMC has asked the PC to waive fees for the season keep to public rights of way as they have no income because of the cessation of Protect the natural environment: play by the Cricket Club for an unknown period. PC Take your litter home agreed to keep this under review as it’s possible that Keep dogs under effective control and pick up after cricket could be played later in the season. your dogs Planning: Several councillors declared interests in some of the planning applications. Objection There has been an increase in undesirable activity Chapman’s Lane, Deddington – tree works. There is locally including trespass on people’s properties and an existing tree preservation order on the two trees activities related to Covid-19. Please keep your doors under consideration. Agreed that these are mature locked, even during the day. trees and there is an amenity value. There have been incidents locally of scammers No objection presenting themselves as charities, both online and 3 South View, Goose Green, Deddington – single sto- calling at people’s homes. If you want to give to a rey extension. Request that skips are on site and any charity it’s best to go direct to the particular charity to damage to verges and paths be made good. be sure your money goes where you want it to. Ignore Northcote, Chapel Square, Deddington – tree work. requests to donate money through a money transfer Dragon Cottage, Tays Gateway, Deddington – single company. These Parish Council notes are the view of our reporter, Jill Cheeseman, and not the official minutes. To see those, go to http://www.deddingtonparishcouncil.org/2020.html.

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Down On George’s Farm Locked down, banged up, With so many badgers setts on the farm – the last count locked out! As a poster that was 40 – I just wonder if it is really worth the time and is doing the rounds from the expense to rebuild the bee enterprise. local ag college depicting a The pandemic has confined us all to barracks but view from a tractor cab puts we are allowed out for exercise and there have been it, ‘Government: self isolate a few complaints about rabbit holes in Green Lane. and socially distance your- Rabbits unfortunately have a nasty habit of digging self’. Farmers: business as their burrows in the most inconvenient places and usual then.’ the large hole just down the footpath from the Green But every cloud has a Lane bridle gate is, in fact, a protected badger sett that silver lining. As I bash this has been in use for some years. It will take the OCC out the North Aston organic footpath officer months to get permission from Defra to flock is under way and producing some very good remove the badgers and relocate them. The footpath lambs. They started some two weeks early because gates are festooned with OCC warning notices so a gate was left open by careless footpath walkers and please don’t blame me. the rams were let out. Over the years we have had a Spring has sprung with skipping lambs, bird song, number of veterinary students from the Royal College which for once I can hear as we are in lockdown and and, this year is no different, although they arrived there is little traffic noise coming through the village. early as the ‘virus’ had closed their colleges – more The spring flowers, the hedgerows and the trees are than a little disappointing for the Farm Student, Ben, as all coming into leaf and the hawthorn and blackthorn he was in his last term before taking his finals in June. are in bloom, the spring planted crops are looking good The same thing happened to me 55 years ago dur- but it could all do with a drop of rain! ing the mid-sixties foot and mouth outbreak. I was at The saga of the ditch is dribbling on and if the the same college and we were ‘gated’ for eight weeks Clifton correspondent in last month’s DN is to be and not allowed to leave the college grounds. If, as I believed, it’s all down to climate change and George. was, you were on livestock duties, you had to wheel The truth is that the offending ditch is not part of my your bicycle through a disinfectant bath before moving farm and is now in the control of Thames Water and between the two college farms. It was not all doom they have come up with a dastardly plan to reduce the and gloom as I played a lot of cricket and tennis on water flow by filling the nine inch culvert pipe, taking the college hard courts. The village pub was next door the water from the ditch down to the river with concrete and not put out of bounds and there were always let- and in-setting a two-inch pipe, so all that will happen ters from Mother and my elder sister, and they always is that the ditch will overflow with the water running included a five pound note. It should be noted that the down the road, so we are back to climate change and government of the day closed all public rights of way, George. Thames Water experts seem to think that soil something that happened again in the 70s and the 90s. run off from the surrounding fields is the cause of the (George tells me that these were local incidents of foot problem but they have not visited the site (only their and mouth centred on Bicester but causing restrictions contractors.) If they had, they would have seen the as far as Deddington and Clifton. He escaped culling 12m grass strips on the field side of the hedge that as his flock was inside for lambing but was unable to run from the farm buildings to Jerusalem Lane. These turn out anything after lambing. Bryony had to give were established some 20 years ago to prevent any up her job as she had to travel from a livestock farm soil run-off getting into the ditch, although our clay through the foot and mouth restricted area to the care based soils don’t run off. This hare that was kicked home where she was a nursing sister. 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Wine Time Getting the wine you want, other than This is, usually, an excellent region in from your own in house stash, may Spain which produces deep, complex prove difficult as we continue our virtual wines from old vines (mosty grenache/ house arrest. Recent shopping trips garnacha based). This one was disap- have shown that, in addition to other pointing. It was Hhgh in alcohol so was essentials wine, beer and spirits have out of balance and lacked the range also been snapped up, although higher and depth of aromas and flavours I was priced bottles remain in stock. If you are expecting. At £12 (reduced to £10) it lucky enough to get a delivery slot with was over-priced for what it was (and one of the major supermarkets you will Priorat is usually quite pricey) – not still be at the mercy of what they have bad, but not a good representation of available. There are wine merchants Priorat, so I won’t be buying it again. who are delivering – Majestic and Slurp Another small adventure was were both (at time of writing) willing to do doorstep CVNE’s Selection De Fincas Ribero Del Duero 2018, deliveries. Some pubs are doing off-sales for beer and Tesco and Sainsbury’s – £10. This turned out to be wine, so call and see what they have. I am sure they very good indeed and dangerously drinkable. Using will be pleased to get any business they can. a local clone of the tempranillo grape, of Rioja fame, Virtual wine tastings are a very good way to pass Ribero is a region that has been producing top quality the time. It’s better if those taking part to have the wines for some time. Richer, rounder and with less oak/ same bottle of wine – but not essential. Members of vanilla than nearby Rioja, it is worth exploring. This one enterprising online drinking club can be spotted wine, a young and early drinking example by one of driving around our villages delivering wines to various Spain’s most famous and skilled wine companies, was doors in preparation for collective online get-togethers. a perfect introduction. If you can find it, give it a go. Why not set one up? If you don’t have the same wine The hot weather hit and we had a taste of sum- then have a go at describing the wine you have to mer as Chapel Down’s English rosé made a welcome each other. If that is too exciting, content yourself appearance – Sainsbury’s £10 and widely available. with simply making sure you are not drinking alone A beautiful deep pink wine made from an interesting but together, virtually. blend of grapes, including one, early pinot noir or pinot The situation we are in presents a perfect oppor- précoce, it is giving hope to those like me who are yet tunity to get adventurous with the wines you drink. If to find a good drinkable English red. Pinot précoce is you can’t get your usual or favourite, then why not try a mutation of a German strain of pinot noir and ripens something similar or go for a grape variety you like from earlier than other variants of pinot noir. Is this the grape another part of the world. If New Zealand sauvignon the English wine industry has been looking for – a blanc is your usual, why not try Chilean sauvignon fresh, fruity red which does not need as much sun blanc? If you can’t get your favourite Rioja then try as other varieties? If its contribution to this delicious, other wines from Spain, such as from Calatayud or strawberries and cream, English pink wine is anything Ribero Del Duero. Similarly, a good alternative to Ar- to go by, it might be. gentinian malbec might be a French Cotes-du-Rhône. Charles Elvin Personal ‘lockdown’ experiments have included a [email protected] Priorat from Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference range.

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POSTCARD FROM AMERICA A Rant on the Inadequate Guy Who strated on the steps of their state offices People Believe – side by side. I woke up this morning with a sore throat The other man who made my head and started worrying that the virus had hurt this week was Dr Oz, one of the talk- got me. Then I remembered, it’s fine, ing heads that they regularly roll out on it’s all a hoax. Fox. His message to the world was that My working life used to involve a lot we should be reopening schools now, ‘it of travel but the pandemic means I have may only cost us 2–3% in terms of total had to cancel three internal US trips. mortality’. Fox is the most watched news Today I spent two hours trying to get a channel in the US with 3.5m tuning in refund out of American Airlines for an Australian trip every prime time and lapping this stuff up. scheduled for May. They had cancelled the LA to Syd- In Colorado, we are all in a lockdown that is being ney leg without telling me but left me with the internal pretty well observed. The governor is a Democrat, flights to LA. The lovely lady on the phone wanted me and he has played it very safely. But last week I spoke to stay in LAX (Los Angeles airport) for two weeks. So to people in Texas who were determined to get back now I am in an argument about a refund on a trip that to the office next week and there were churches in there is no flight for and where the destination country Florida suing the state for permission to open. Wyo- won’t let me in. Don’t ever book with AA. ming, which is less than 200 miles north of us has no There is one key issue about the country I live in lockdown at all and in South Dakota the governor is that I didn’t really understand until I had been here a claiming they don’t need one. The death rate there is while. There are 50 states with very different perspec- soaring, centred on a plant which processes 20,000 tives on life, conflicting laws and in many ways very pigs a day. I wonder why? They had 3,700 people different people – the not very United States. Earlier working there in an unprotected environment. It is the this week He Who Must Not Be Blamed (HWMNBB) Republican states that are not observing long-term went on TV and announced that he had full control of lockdowns, aided by an obsession with freedom and when the lockdown would end and would tell us all not being told what to do. shortly when we could go back to normal. All hell broke In total 22m people in the US have filed for un- loose, apparently the constitution says he can’t do that, employment, 14% of the workforce, an astounding so now he has announced that the state governors will figure over four weeks. Many Americans live a hand be responsible for opening up their own areas. to mouth existence, and the stories are rolling out of He then announced that the testing regimen is evictions and of utility supplies being terminated. As down to the governors as well. Don’t ever tell me that always it isn’t the rich one per cent who are going to TOWCBB (The One Who Can’t be Blamed) isn’t a be the most affected. canny political operator: he lost on the control issue, Meanwhile TOWCBB finds it more important to but then turned it round and gave the governors owner- tell us all that his ratings battle with the latest other ship of the next no-win problem. The US is nearly as far big programme, The Bachelor, has been won by his behind as the UK on testing, but the man in the White campaign rally. If it was another TV reality show you House isn’t going to be held responsible any more for would say this was very funny. But no, it’s his daily anything. On the day that 4,500 Americans died he 5pm virus update. resorted to Tweeting to his supporters to reopen the My rant must come to an end. I need to do the economy, directly counter to the scientific advice from weekly shop. Ten years ago in the UK we were doing his administration. all our food shopping online but it isn’t common here. The response in each state has been different and Heather tried the supermarket car park pickup ap- the whole debacle has now become extremely politi- proach last week but, of the 18 items she’d ordered, 12 cal. In his daily briefings, HWMNBB blames everyone. were on the un-deliverable list. Then she went instore This week it was the World Health Organisation and and picked up 11 of them. then a female journalist who dared to ask him what Being locked inside has made us all crazy but was happening with regard to the lack of testing. In perhaps we are living in a TV show. Tomorrow we will his world nothing is ever his fault. 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It’s a big Lower Larkrise welcome to Arric and Natalie appeared in a neighbour’s garage and made available who have moved here with a fine puppy hound. We to any neighbour with a big enough jug and a good welcome them and look forward to sharing an ale or sense of social distancing. As the garage was open wine in the Duck if and when it opens again – and how during daylight hours it worked pretty well. so many of us hope it can. This correspondent is aware While Ron continues his convalescence another of other neighbours who have moved in who I have not neighbour took up the challenge of organising a syn- yet had the pleasure of meeting, so I’d ask when this dicate oil drop as heating oil prices slumped to only madness has all reverted to a degree of normality if 32 pence per litre. Some of us remember £1 per litre they could get I touch below so I can extend a similar at Christmas not that long ago. If any neighbour would greeting and buy you a drink. like to take part in this next time please email me as In these difficult times many of us have really valued below and we’ll add you to the list for when we ask our part of the Deddington circular walk that takes us again. The big drop is always in spring but there is often to our own parish frontline heroes running the shops a top up during the darker months and an email is sent in Candleford and keeping us fed as we hike with our out. If you were on the list but didn’t get an email this rucksacks up each week for sustenance while walk- time please also contact me – especially if you have ing through excellent countryside admiring the view, changed your email address. seeing the lambs and horses. In fact there are many We must also recognise those still working making walks that can be accessed from here from a few miles equipment for essential industries and our very own to well over twelve. However, remember to leave the Iron Man Mayo who has been ‘working around the gates as you find them and wait to be able to give clock’ producing vital components for full face visor anyone you meet a wide berth. In Lower Larkrise we PPE for our local GPs and other NHS heroes. This also have our very own source of eggs, the freshest is what you can do with knowledge and a proper 3D of lamb and honey, a selection of various live growing printer and so he is. herbs plus other essentials courtesy of Naomi and As usual, if you have more news then it will save Chris at Home Farm. me the bother of making this all up which I’m happy to A couple of windfalls came our way during this do if it entertains anyone for five minutes of the loneli- crisis – every dark cloud does have a silver lining, ness of self isolation. and this was evidenced when a 72 pint barrel of beer Martin Bryce [email protected]

It was all going so well … to the variety of groups the brand new Pocket Park and organisations at the for toddlers was open; Windmill, most of which there was an increasing are run on a shoestring by number and variety of hard-working, dedicated regular activities on offer volunteers who give freely at the Windmill with many of their time to make our more in the pipeline; the village a better and richer ambitious plans to contin- place to live. These people ue updating and improving and others like them are what give me confidence that the building were progressing apace; even the weather we’ll be okay. Our local community is strong and up was sunnier than I can remember it ever being at this to the challenge. time of year, and then this happened … Coronavirus, Let’s look forward to better times, let’s look forward and the end of normal life as we know it. to normality: the Windmill playing fields covered with There are lots of unexpected things that I have had kids of different ages doing football training, cricket to do in my role as chair of the Windmill Management sessions in the nets, the tennis courts booked out Committee over the past couple of years but this one and the Pocket Park and adventure playground full of takes the biscuit: closing the whole place down. As I families and young children picnicking and enjoying write, we’re in week four of lockdown: everybody at themselves. I hope to see you all back at the Windmill home, nobody allowed out except for medicines and again soon. food shopping, and nothing open apart from the phar- Vaughan Jones macy, Foodies, the Co-op and Eagles. [email protected] But let’s try to stay positive. On the plus side, my short stint as chair so far has opened my eyes

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More Notes from a Very Small Garden Four weeks on from my last ramblings and day-to-day come together to look after its own. What’s particularly life is still OK. This is the new reality, social contact gratifying for us oldies is that it’s the younger genera- reduced to holding conversations with neighbours tion who have stepped up. I know that our corner of across the street and shopping left on the doorstep paradise is in good hands – thank you. We’re starting by cautious delivery people. an archive on Deddington OnLine to document this Meanwhile my garden is micromanaged and extraordinary episode for future generations. documented like never before – they don’t call me Mrs I have bad days when I can’t see the outcome of Clipboard for nothing. I haven’t been out for four weeks all this and, when we go back to normal, what will apart from a constitutional round the Castle Grounds normal be? Wearing a mask and keeping 2m away where I’ve watched trees go from bare stems to full leaf from my family? Are we an endangered species to be in a matter of days. Small things suddenly matter. And confined to barracks until a vaccine is found – which I did the Clifton Road–Leadenporch Farm–Chapmans could be a year away? Right now I’ve told myself 12 Lane loop the other day after a gap of many years. I weeks lockdown – if it’s less so much the better, and was convinced I was lost and was going to end up in we’re already a third of the way through. North Aston until Google Maps put me right. In the meantime I put on my silly earrings and a There are inspirational stories such as 99 year bit of lippy (I’m not a child of the 60s for nothing) and old Captain Tom Moore raising £21m (at the time of do shared-screen readings of Matilda via Zoom with writing and still rising) for NHS charities by walking my granddaughter. And Parish-Council-meetings-by- round his garden. Such a small act which generated Skype are the highlight of my social calendar – bit an astonishing outburst of generosity. And the weekly sad, that. Thursday thanks to our frontline workers – Featherton I’d like to record here the passing of a dear friend House we want you outside so we can say thank you, and former Parish Councillor, Norman Drake. Tributes please. There are desperately sad stories as well – will come later and we’ll raise a glass to him when this don’t get me started on PP equipment and testing, the is all over. And when the lockdown is lifted, I’m head- reckoning will come later. ing the line-up at the bottle bank on the Milton Road. Our community is truly astonishing in the way it has Mary Robinson [email protected]

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CHURCH AND CHAPEL Deddington with Barford, Clifton and Hempton While all public worship is suspended, please keep checking the church website for any further information, http://www.deddingtonchurch.org/. For funerals, please contact the Vicar at [email protected] or on 01869 336880. If Annie is not available, please contact one of the church wardens, Iain Gillespie on 01869 338367 or Meriel Flux on 01869 338901. Our curate, Revd Paula Smith, can be contacted at [email protected]. RC Parish of Hethe St John’s Church in Banbury will be streaming Mass daily at at 9.30am, Mondays to Fridays; 10.00am on Saturdays and 11.15am on Sundays on https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-john-the-evangelist-banbury. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will be streamed for 30 minutes at the end of each weekday Mass.

Our Co-op During Lockdown I recently spoke to some of the 21 members of staff came in for special mention. As we all know they are at our local Co-op to find out their personal views of doing a great job, shopping and collecting prescrip- dealing with the current situation. As you would expect tions for people who are unable to leave their homes. they were unanimously good-humoured, saying that The staff I spoke to asked that, where possible, they look forward to coming to work because they see people should try to do a week’s shop rather than in their customers and colleagues and have a few laughs. little bits and pieces. Try to plan ahead for what you’ll Now that everyone who is shopping there has an need. This will help them enormously. If you would like understanding of the need for social distancing they to place an order with the Co-op, please call 01869 are finding it reasonably easy to deal with, although 336281 but you’ll need to be patient as the members they still a feel nervous at the prospect of going to work of staff are often dealing with other customers, making because they are more at risk than if they stayed at up orders and stacking shelves when deliveries arrive. home. There are now an additional three temporary If it’s possible, it’s better to contact your local captain employees who are on zero hours contracts and they on the Covid-19 Response Group – the list of contacts will cover for any absentees. In the next few days there has been reproduced on p1 of this issue. will be one additional person, otherwise everyone They wanted to thank everyone for their patience, is doing their usual hours, some full-time and some particularly when they have to close or partially close part-time. the shop when there’s a delivery. There has been an One of the most important messages they wanted improvement in the supplies arriving at the shop and to communicate is that they are happy to do deliver- next week (so by the time you read this) this should ies and there’s a small number of people who are improve again with supplies coming from a different doing some deliveries to other local villages outside warehouse. Deddington parish. The Covid-19 Response Group JC

Leonard Long POW in Germany, James Cowley POW in Mesopotamia and QMS HJ Harmsworth from Italy who had been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. The 1918–19 outbreak of Spanish Flu reportedly killed more people than the war so I investigated deaths in the parish dur- The eleventh of November was the declared end of ing the epidemic years using the recent WWI hostilities but Deddington soldiers continued to Oxford Family History Society graveyard survey. It is die. not a complete record of course because not everyone Pte Harry Gardiner married his girlfriend Ellen was buried in our churchyard; however there is no ap- Hawtin on 30 October. Deddington Deanery Maga- parent spike in deaths for those years compared with zine’s January entry records that he had died on 2 several years either side so the chances are that the December. The entry for February records three final village, in its rural isolation at that time, got off lightly. deaths: ‘George Davis in Salonica, Edwin Bliss in In- Rob Forsyth dia, Bernard Hawkins has died. He was not a prisoner [email protected] as was earlier reported’. It also notes the return of 01869 338384

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DEDDINGTON FARMERS MARKET Lockdown Nobody knows when the next Farmers Clean then halve the potatoes. Heat a Market will be held – but we think it is little olive oil in a shallow pan, place the unlikely to reopen as soon as May. potatoes cut-side down and leave them You should not despair. A lot of the to cook. Halve and deseed the peppers, stallholders are taking weekly orders and cut them into long strips and add to the making deliveries. This keeps them in pan. Peel and finely slice the onion and business and us with food on the table. add it to the potatoes and peppers along Simply go to the website for details: http:// with a large knob of butter. Leave to cook, www.deddingtonfarmersmarket.co.uk/ with the occasional stir, until the potatoes stallholders-on-line-ordering.html. are nicely golden and the onion is start- In the meantime, here’s something simple and ing to soften. Pour in the vegetable stock, bring to the comforting to make. It’s from Nigel Slater’s Eat. It’s his boil, season, then cover with a lid and let it simmer take on the Spanish standard of Patatas a lo Pobre enthusiastically for 20 minutes. Once the stock has – Poor Man’s Potatoes. This recipe is for two people. almost disappeared, crush a few of the potatoes with 500g new potatoes a fork, allowing them to absorb the last drops of liquid. Olive oil If you like you can add some chopped garlic with 2 large peppers the onions or a pinch of ground paprika. 1 large onion It might go well with a Corona beer … 1 large knob of butter Ian Willox 400ml vegetable stock 01869 337940 [email protected]

TO GRADUATE OR NOT TO GRADUATE Little did I envisage my final year as a geography embarking on my studies at university, that my gradu- student at Queen Mary University, London, turning ation would be cancelled because of a virus causing out the way it has. everyone to stay inside, I would not have believed I was due to travel to Boston, USA, at the end of them. With a new job hopefully starting in September, March on a field trip to enrich my studies but this was this poses another challenge as this requires a 2:1 cancelled in February – a taste of the changes that degree but, in the circumstances, it is impossible to were about to be unleashed in our corner of the world. know whether I will have achieved this by then. The first part of the work of the cancelled trip was Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the so- converted into online research which culminated in a cial life of a young person like me. As a keen netball 2,000 word essay instead of enjoying life in Boston and player, our league was left abandoned in the middle of actually exploring this new area for myself. March, with league winners yet to be finalised. Being Final year exams have ultimately morphed into someone who enjoys going to the pub with my friends, more coursework and assignments. It has been par- we have had to find new ways to socialise virtually. ticularly frustrating over the last few weeks not knowing For example, we’ve been having virtual group quiz- what was happening with assignments and even now zes and have been creating group videos on TikTok. I don’t know how these difficult circumstances will be However, these cannot replace normal face-to-face accounted for in the marking criteria – a stressful situ- contact and I, along with everyone else, am very much ation for any student in their last year of studies. The looking forward to this pandemic being over. In the effects of this pandemic, combined with the university meantime, I will be maintaining social distancing and lecturers’ industrial strike during February and March, staying at home. has caused significant disruption to my final year at We are very fortunate living in a beautiful part of the university. country surrounded by many footpaths for daily walks. My graduation, which has been postponed from I’d like to end with a huge shout out to all frontline July to an unknown date in the future, means there workers everywhere who are putting their lives on the is great uncertainty regarding when I might finish the line every day. It puts everything else into perspective. year and when I find out my degree classification. If Jo Watts someone had told me in September 2017, when I was

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LETTERS FROM REVD ANNIE GOLDTHORP pray that these are the things we will By the time you read this, our Easter remember, along with the kindness of celebrations will have been and gone friends and strangers. – although the season of Easter actu- I would of course re-iterate what ally carries on until Ascension Day on Please address all letters to: you have already been told (many JILL CHEESEMAN times, I know). Stay inside other than 21 May. On that day we usually have a 37 THE DAEDINGS, DEDDINGTON service on the top of the church tower [email protected] for getting food and some exercise, at 7.00am – I don’t imagine that will and include your name and address and wash your hands – often. Please be happening this year, but I will find even if they are not for publication stay safe and look out for one another a way to mark the event if I possibly where you can, and please don’t be can. Of course it may also be that as I write this in the afraid to contact me if there is anything middle of April, by the time you read it at the beginning I can help you with. of May, things will have changed again – these are With every blessing very uncertain times. It feels very strange to lead worship from my dining- FROM CHRISTOPHER HALL & DIANA MARSHALL room at the vicarage – it is just one of the new ways CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 2020 in which we are having to be ‘church’, which in some Last year nationally Christian Aid Week raised over ways I find quite exciting. It would be true to say that seven and a half million pounds. Deddington has been Christian love (whether people think of it in that way congratulated for keeping up our £2,000 level of giving or not), is literally all around us. The acts of kindness each year, thanks to the dedication of collectors and have been many and varied and in the years that fol- the generosity of donors. This year there can be no low there will be many wonderful stories of how these house-to-house collection. villages pulled together to make what is a horrible situ- Christian Aid partners in poorer nations will be ation, as good as it could be for everyone here – and deprived of that help which they sorely need as the for that, I want to thank you. pandemic spreads among their people. They will Despite all the horror stories and sadness that we be victims of the virus without the health service we hear about, as well as the fear that goes alongside this applaud, many without even clean water to wash virus, there are things to be thankful for. The near ab- their hands. As worldwide travel resumes across the sence of traffic brings a peace which is to be enjoyed. global village, Covid-19 could make a come back here. The sunny weather makes people smile – and it’s Please respond to this by clicking on lovely to see families spending time together enjoying https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/deddingtoncaw, the warmth. More people than ever seem to be running then we will know how open-handed the people of or cycling around the villages, and so perhaps we are Deddington, Clifton and Hempton are. Please add getting healthier and fitter, and nature itself seems to GiftAid if you can. be making a bold statement of resurgence. I hope and

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Tales from the Pump Although the closure of our pubs to borrow to cover the lack of cash coming in. Loans and loss of livelihoods for hospitality have to be repaid and the future is very uncertain. The workers is top of the mind for us pub biggest cost in the hospitality business is labour and landlords, it does not compare with the the government must guarantee workers significantly G L stress, illness and loss of life caused more than Statutory Sick Pay or basic redundancy by this terrible epidemic. Usually when pay. I hope that by the time you read this something disaster strikes in this country the pub will have been done. is the place to go and keep up our By the end of February Brits had paid as much beer spirits and often forms the hub from duty as the Germans will in the whole of 2020 – de- which support is given. But when social interaction is spite the Germans drinking about double the amount. hastening the spread of the coronavirus then pubs, Beer duty is 11 times higher in the UK than in Spain. football and rugby matches, theatres, and festivals all The take in taxes from pubs has been massive over go by the board in the effort to slow down the spread the years – now is the time to show that the country of the disease so that hopefully the NHS can cope. values our workers in the hospitality business – it’s At the time of writing the government is trying to payback time. help hospitality businesses with the availability of loans Grumpy Landlord as well as the removal of business rates. Whilst the lat- [email protected] ter is welcome it is unlikely that pub landlords will want

Our plans for VE Friends of Deddington Library Day on 8 May It’s difficult to think of much else right now other than have had to be the dreaded virus and the unprecedented challenges postponed until we’re all facing. The good people of our parish and at least VJ Day surrounding villages have done us proud and the on 10 August. community spirit and generosity is humbling. From The Royal Brit- shopping and collecting medicine for the vulnerable, ish Legion has dog walking, grass cutting, keeping in touch with el- suggested that derly and vulnerable parishioners, to a whole host of instead the nation does some window support we all took for granted just a few months ago, dressing, takes photographs and this global crisis has brought us together and I hope it posts them on social media. To that end they have pro- will continue once we’re through it. vided suggestions and instructions on an information One of the positive things that’s evident is how sheet (PDF) which can be downloaded from the fol- many of you have taken to social media to share your lowing link. https://tinyurl.com/y9kjpyul. It also contains wonderful pictures when out walking around the parish. details of how to enter a children’s poster competition, It’s an uplifting way to share the beauty that we see all WWII recipes and games to play on the day. around us when out in the countryside, especially at We should also remember our four surviving WWII springtime when nature reminds us why life is so pre- ex-service people, all in their mid to late nineties, who cious. If you’d like to share your images with a wider are having to live with the lockdown – Daphne Can- audience and enter them into our photo competition, ning, Margery Hawes, Stephanie Higham and Edna then please send your creations for consideration for Sewell. next year’s Deddington Library Calendar to me and Rob Forsyth keep on doing us proud, thank you. Branch Chairman Bryn Williams [email protected]

Temporary Changes to Stagecoach S4 service Banbury – Adderbury – Deddington – Steeple Aston – Tackley – Kidlington – Oxford Our local bus service is now operating a revised time- please check the Stagecoach website https://www. table. I understand that information has been posted stagecoachbus.com/timetables before travelling. at the local bus stops, thanks to one of our parish At the time of writing the buses in both directions councillors, but there appear to be frequent changes are approximately every 1.5 hours. so if you are using the service for your essential travel, JC

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The Unexploded Bombs of Deddington Shortly after my family moved to Deddington in the ‘The bombs all fell in Suckley Hill Field which is early 1980s I met Fred Deeley, a Deddington worthy of right next to the Banbury road and immediately south long standing but now no longer of Paper Mill Lane. The field with us. He frequently walked was very soft because it was his dog up Green Hedges Lane ploughed and the bombs had past my house and would often buried themselves deep into stop for a chat as I worked in my the ground. My Dad wondered garden. if they had been trying to bomb On one occasion we got the road but it was just as likely talking about World War Two that they had been jettisoned. and Fred told me that one night The Bomb Disposal chaps had during a raid on Coventry (there long sticks which they prodded were three heavy raids on that into the ground and decided city) an enemy aircraft flew over they were so deep as not to be Deddington and jettisoned five a danger and left. They never bombs. Fortunately they all fell came back. There was a map of north of the village and remark- bombs dropped on Oxfordshire ably none exploded, burying but for some reason they got themselves deep in what were left off. Perhaps they just got then Charlie Fuller’s fields. They forgotten; so they are still there apparently fell more or less paral- but, after all this time of farming lel between Green Hedges Lane activity over them since, I think and the main Oxford — Banbury we can say they are safe.’ road but nearer the latter and well It should be pointed out that short of Earls Lane. the field is not open to the public Some time later an Army and there is no public right of bomb disposal team inspected way near by. the holes that the bombs had made and decided there was no immediate threat as The Coventry Air—raids Enemy planes involved they were quite deeply embedded; the team had their 14 November 1940 400 hands full with Coventry after the raids. As far as Fred knew the bombs were forgotten and 8 April 1941 300 estimates still lay where they fell in 1940-41. Their exact location 10 April 1941 200 is unknown. Brian Fuller (son of Charlie and now farming the Total civilians killed in the raids during 1940-41 – 1,236 land) takes up the story: David Hood and Brian Fuller

FRIENDS OF DAEDA’S WOOD It is particularly important at the moment to care for signal is good for the whole of the route. If you walk oneself as well as others and what could be better it the other way, you could drop off all those empty than to go ‘forest bathing’ in our local Wood. It is safe bottles in the Council lay by – there’s plenty of room to go alone, especially at this time of the year when in the bottle banks. buds are just bursting open. It’s possible to see right It’s a bit sad that horses have been led through through the planting ... hard to believe how, in a few the Wood creating deep ruts and churning up some more weeks, it will become dense, giving a feeling of the path near the flower meadow. Similarly, some of being in a much larger wood. The sunlight filtering thoughtless car drivers have been parking on the grass through the trees and the birdsong are really uplifting. verges even when there is ample free parking in the Sharp eyed children might find a spring time sticker designated area. sheet and paper to make your own Spring Watch Please let me know if you see any of this happening booklet. Clue: not up high and linked to a board. as, especially with photographic evidence, it should be I like to do a circular walk from the path extending possible to get the local police to have a friendly word. from The Daedings down to the Wood taking in the The AGM of the Friends of Daeda’s Wood has had glorious view over Barford, returning along the slightly to be cancelled so I’m proposing that existing subscrip- steep Milton Road to the Council layby then along the tions remain in force until the date of the next AGM A4260 to Deddington. It’s excellent for raising one’s likely to be 2021. heart rate and takes about one hour. If you feel vulner- Annette Murphy able walking alone its worth knowing that the phone [email protected]

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C 14 – May 2020 Deddington News

CALLING ALL CLUBS Photographic Society Deddington Bookworms We live in very strange times and it was with regret Our latest book, Midwinter Break, by Bernard Ma- that the AGM on 1 April was cancelled. However, the cLaverty, paints a clear portrait of a retired, middle- committee has been working away and are currently aged couple, Stella and Gerry, who are connected in the process of holding a virtual AGM presenting all through years of habit and familiarity. The story is set the necessary reports to members and then request- in Amsterdam; Stella’s idea was to visit for a purpose ing votes to fill the relevant vacant officer positions. which she doesn’t share with Gerry. Gerry is addicted Once collated I will confirm the results. Normally at the to alcohol that he works hard at hiding from his wife, AGM the topic is ‘What is it?’ where members try to whilst Stella is rooted in her Catholic faith. bamboozle each other with photographs of odd every Amsterdam in January is an unusual choice for a day items taken at odd angles or close up. So, if you getaway, but MacLaverty portrays the city not as dim want a frustrating half-hour guessing, have a look at and cold in the winter light, but as a place of discovery our website and click on the Lockdown Challenges and hidden corners. As the story unfolds, the reader 2020 for the ‘What is it?’ challenge. The answers will learns what drove Stella and Gerry out of Belfast when be available in a separate folder. You might also like they were younger. It was a single horrific event that to scroll through the individual members’ galleries continues to haunt each of them in different ways. section where you will find stunning images in a range As Gerry retreats into alcoholism, Stella considers a of genres. life without him. But this is a couple who deeply love The club will continue to have monthly photography each other. It is a short trip that leads both to face topics so keep checking the website for the latest con- their fears, their secrets, and the meaning of the lives tributions and see how resourceful our photographers they have lived. can be in lockdown. Wishing everyone well until we Sensitively written, with an insight into what it can meet again. means to be human and saturated with an almost Anne Hunsley nostalgic and poetic flair, this book was a joy to read. www.addphoto.co.uk We agreed during a Zoom meeting that we would read more of MacLaverty’s work and would definitely Royal British Legion recommend this book. During this period of lockdown it is perhaps worth Our next meeting will be on Zoom in May to discuss repeating that anyone who would like help from the The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. RBL should contact our Branch Community Support Deddington Library committee member, Barrie Clifford, on01869 337575. 01869 338391 Rob Forsyth Chairman 01869 338384 Book Group Since we are not able to have our usual meetings, we Women’s Institute are sharing our opinions on the books by email. The committee, with the agreement of the members, Our latest book was the debut novel Such a Fun have decided to cancel meetings at the Holly Tree Age by American author Kiley Reid. It opens with a dis- until the crisis has resolved. We do, however, have turbing situation. Because of a late night emergency, electronic versions of our News and Views from Ox- a rich white couple ask their young black babysitter fordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes and the to look after one of their small children. She takes the newsletter from our very efficient committee. child to a supermarket where a security guard accuses Moira Byast her of kidnapping. Although the matter is resolved quickly, the repercussions are significant and involve Local Vocals Community Choir issues of race, class and privilege. We usually meet on Mondays at 7.00pm but this is The book received very positive reviews both in the suspended until further notice. US and over here. However, the reactions from our We are looking forward to being back together as group were mixed. We all struggled with the unfamiliar soon as it’s safe to do so but, in the mean time, some Americanisms and slang used in dialogue between the of us have joined our choir leader Cat McGill for her young black characters – perhaps the book was aimed virtual choir where we can see each other via Zoom or at a younger generation. There was a general feeling just join in anonymously at www.facebook.com/groups that the plot was rather contrived and the characters /560884704783731/?ref=share. This is a great stress were two-dimensional. In spite of these criticisms, most buster and good to keep those vocal cords flexed. To thought the book was an interesting choice and some find out more about our choir and to contact us please had found it an enjoyable read. visit our website www.localvocalscc.co.uk. Sian Waterman Alison Grieve

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YOUTH 1st Deddington Scout Group We stopped face to face meetings before the Cubs and Scouts government put the ban in place on people meeting. We’re all still quite busy even though we can’t meet Instead we have been having fun with online meetings. face to face (it means I can run a meeting in my pyja- The first week we tried a scavenger hunt to find mas – result). The Cubs have been given the task of items to spell SPARTANS from anything in your house. finishing their Skills Challenge by completing a garden These ranged from Russian dolls to a red plastic cup. survey and listing the people who help their community As we are unable to go anywhere, we had online – very relevant at the moment. The Scouts, who are meetings through the holidays and had an Easter Egg also completing a badge, will be continuing with their hunt. Parents hid eggs in either the house or garden. fitness challenge and re-purposing an item of clothing. The most inventive? Hanging one in a bag in a tree. Both sections have a ‘Thursday brain teaser’. So Now we’re all the right way up on phones or lap- far we’ve had a tricky puzzle and a photo challenge tops, the meetings are a great way to keep in touch. where they had to make an evil shadow picture of As parents enjoyed hiding the eggs, this week we’re themselves – very revealing, we’ll be telling you who having a family quiz night. to avoid in future. Janet Duxbury St George’s day on 23 April was special to us as he [email protected] is also the patron saint of scouting and we asked the Cubs and Scouts to fly a flag for the day and perhaps 1st Deddington Brownies whistle for George too. The Brownies had their first Zoom meeting last week, Jo Churchyard where the girls all drew their NHS superheroes. We are [email protected] having a week off this week but will be having weekly Peter Churchyard meetings on Zoom after that until the end of lockdown. [email protected] Next week will be Online Origami. Fern Stringer Explorers [email protected] As everyone else, scouting is facing enormous chal- lenges with the lockdown at the moment. SWIFT WATCHING THIS SUMMER SPORT I am writing this in the second half of Deddington Town FC Youth Teams April. We will be in lockdown until well After football ended in mid-March due to coronavirus, into May. The guidelines from the gov- we are unlikely to have our 2020 presentation day in ernment about what you may and may June due to social distancing. However, we will still not do, are clear. Please abide by those. award prizes and get these to winning players over I have a suggestion for a pleasur- the summer. We are starting to plan for the 2020-21 able birding activity which you can season, which we hope, will start in September 2020. incorporate into your local exercise walk, and stay safe Shirt Sponsor for Under 8s for 2020-21 Season and within the law as well. It’s simply this. Look out for If you are interested in being the shirt sponsor for the your local swifts. They arrive in early May and quite 2020-21 season for Under 8 team (currently U7s) possibly there will be some near you. If you see any Please contact me. flying low over rooftops, possibly making screaming 25 Years of Deddington Town FC Youth Football calls as they pass, please note where they are. No The 2020-21 season will see us celebrate 25 years other British bird behaves like this. It’s an indication of youth football at Deddington Town Football Club. there are nest sites nearby. You might even be lucky We are starting to plan for an event in the summer enough to spot one returning to its nest hole under the 2021. If you are a past player or coach and want to eaves of a building. get involved, please contact me. Why are we interested? Well, the population of Get involved swifts is more than 50% lower than it was 25 years If you want to get involved with the club as player, vol- ago. They need our help. Having these records can unteer, sponsor or fundraiser, please do not hesitate help swift conservation by increasing our knowledge to get in touch. Further information about the club is of local populations, enabling us to protect a nest site on our website – www.deddingtontownfc/ or visit us or lobbying for new ones. on Facebook www.facebook.com/DeddingtonTownFc. Please send me any records of – birds at nests; Roger Sykes screaming parties and low-flying swifts; or large num- Development Officer and U7/U6 Coach bers of birds feeding over wetlands. 01869 337034 Chris Mason [email protected] [email protected] Cherwell Swifts

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HOW TO SURVIVE LONG PERIODS OF ISOLATION – A Submariner’s View It’s the fifth Sunday morning in a row for a Polaris mis- but all complained if they did not hear the sound of a sile submarine on patrol; I stroll down the main pas- hymn being sung by the few that did. Social events sageway pulling a scrubbing brush on a string behind such as quizzes and film nights or a fiercely com- me casually acknowledging various social greetings petitive naval version of Ludo called ‘uckers’ on set but creating no surprise. Have I gone mad? No, the nights were regulars. Saturday night F1 races round Executive Officer is just taking his ‘dog’ for a walk as a Scalextric track weaving its way between the mis- a way of deliberately disrupting the tedious routine sile tubes was the highlight. Card games had unique of what could be an eight week patrol but no one will rules revolving round fierce cheating. This allowed know just how long until the recall signal sets a wave the letting off of steam facing up to someone who of channel fever sweeping through the boat. had perhaps been getting on your nerves – even the I am frequently asked if we submariners were Captain. Towards the end of every patrol there would volunteers and underwent psychological testing to always be a variety show – aka a ‘Sod’s Opera’ – in establish if we could live for months at a time, totally which dressing-up using the engine room rag bags as a isolated under water, in the company of a very dispa- source of surprisingly ‘exotic’ costumes was essential. rate group of people. The answer is No to both. In fact Talent was mixed but, like all amateur productions, the the Canadian Navy once sent a ‘head shrink’ to inter- anticipation, taking part and audience involvement was view a submarine crew because it was contemplating what it was all about. obtaining its own submarines. ‘They are all half mad’ Through it all ran a strong thread of humour, pok- was the conclusion but this missed the point. Yes, we ing fun whenever possible at our isolated existence. were strong-minded, opinionated and idiosyncratic – This was well expressed in our Sunday newspaper our partners’ description when being polite – but even which reported gossip and goings on in the boat in a the most diverse personalities, forced to co-exist, will thoroughly scurrilous manner from which no-one was modify their behaviour to avoid annoying their fellow exempt. It also provided a platform for some talented beings and cope with the mental strain of being ‘locked cartoonists. up’ for an uncertain period of time. Finally, it was best not to count the days because So what were our coping mechanisms? It was that merely emphasised how long it had been since important to have a structure to the week. Every day you sailed. If all else fails, you could take your scrub- needed its own characteristic by way of a scheduled bing brush for a walk – but on no account let it lift its activity – church every Sunday for instance. Few came leg on someone’s newly washed deck. Rob Forsyth

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